Universal Solvent Lyrics

Free

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

The dawning of a new day’s come, the January first of the year.
We’ve exorcised the demons that pulled the string, governing our lives with fear.
The symbols etched in stone are all that remain of their bloody hands.
Wash away the sadness and usher in the plans.

We’re free… to make decisions on our own.
Democracy… elect a leader we condone.
We’ll build upon our knowledge base, expand it through the years.
Erect a score of monuments with blood, sweat, and tears.

Free to live our lives the way we want them to be.
Free to even bask in our own luxury.
Emancipated from our fathers’ enemy
Together we once fell but now we stand.

We’re free… to plan the future for ourselves.
History… will unfold in the palms of our hands.
The road is wide in front of us, we’ll take one step at a time.
Let’s let emotion guide us, together we’ll make the climb.

Free to live our lives the way we want them to be.
Free to even bask in our own luxury.
Emancipated from our fathers’ enemy
Together we once fell but now we stand.

Free to make up
Free to take it
Free to make up our minds
Free to take it with us

Put our minds together and manifest a plan.
Unite the common people, the nomads ‘cross the land.
Organize and educate, there is no better way to placate.
Define the boundaries, lest we deal with the reprobates.

Free to live our lives the way we want them to be.
Free to even bask in our own luxury.
Emancipated from our fathers’ enemy
Together we once fell but now we stand.

Another Demanding Dream

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

I throw my cigarette to the ground.
The chasm in my heart is dragging me down.
People just pass me by.
Narry a one of them lends me an eye.
The face of camaraderie’s wearing a frown.

Late last night, I lay in my bed.
Visions of deities danced in my head, and they’re speaking to me.
I find it impossible to make my case when
The ultimate adversary’s in my face
And filling my daytime hours with dread.

Just another demanding dream
Forcing my hand to do what I have seen.
I can save the lives of my friends
It’s possible if they could see where I’ve been.
Just another demanding dream.

Come listen to what I must say.
If you want life fulfilled, I can show you the way, as clear as the coming day.
Just take these scriptures at hand.
The written word’s here to help you understand.
Come join in my quest without delay.

The Scientist

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

We understand very little of the things we see.
The road ahead is as vast as the unending sea.

A silhouette is staling us,
Darting in and out of doorways in the hush
Evoking questions that must be answered.
A silhouette is stalking us.

(We are the ones) Who will push the limits of our race.
(We are the ones) To discover breakthroughs with our wits.
(We are the ones) To crack the code in every case.
(We are the ones) Whom they call the scientists.

Mystery drives us to extremes.
Decoding encryption makes our eyes gleam.
At the end of the working day, we still work.
Mystery drives us to extremes.

Structure

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

We need more structure.
We need to build upon a solid foundation.
We need more structure.
We need to organize our factions.

Wantonly gallivanting as a mass,
A despicable action for people with class.

We need more structure.
Install supporting beams to hang the wicked on.
We need more structure.
Define a method to chose the right from wrong.

Many things in our sight
Will slip away if boundaries aren’t right.
Simple measures are at hand
If you think of them and plan.

We need more structure.
Install the shingles to the sides and on the top.
We need more structure.
Ward off intruders with a fence of stone and rock.

We need more structure.
Apply the plaster, carve the writing on the wall.
We need more structure.
Inspect the details, one and all.

Hypotheses

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

I’ve seen you once before.
My simulated data led me to your door
Enhancing my feeling.

The repeat has been done.
I really can’t believe what we have happened upon.
I think we must be dreaming.

We base hypotheses
Upon results we see.
Conclusions cannot be
Denied.

Analysis complete.
The implications really kicked us in the seat.
Results are convincing.

We’ve been led to conclude
A polar shift will skew our current latitude.
Foreseeing, I am wincing.

My calculation’s right.
The end of days is coming, it’s now in our sight.
We can’t just stay sitting.

We must inform the mass.
A publication should go out and make it fast,
Reviewers permitting.

Information Control

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

With scepters in our hands,
Respond to our commands.
The media we’ll feed
And force them to believe.

Information control
We tell the people what they need to know.
It is their favor we must hold.
Their malcontent may lead to overthrow.

Information control
With fear we’ll lead the flock to the goal.
It is a risk, the dice we roll.
Deception’s met with icy cold.

Keep their spirits high.
They’ll live in peace and scurry by
And keep their distance. All the while
We eat our cake with toothy smile.

Information control
Omit the lines that they don’t need to know.
Maintain an ever steady flow
And watch our population grow.

Oracle

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

I look into your eyes.
You show me what I need to see:
A future shining bright,
Impending death or certain harmony.

A splash of color shades of gray.
I’ll ask a question if I may.
Will the years be kind to me?
Send us an omen, show the way.

The burden weighs upon my back,
Infects the thoughts I lack.
To disrupt the mirth they understand
And convey the words throughout the land.

The beast unfolds its wings to fly
To meet our eyes in just shy of a fortnight.
His sinful cackle fills the air.
A stench of sulfur hanging everywhere.

The public will wait no more
To hear me shred apart their dreams.
Please give me strength
To carry on.

Pyramids #2

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

Welcome to the table of the high regarded ones.
The tasks laid out before us were never thought to come.
We’ve spun the world ’round with theorems and hypotheses.
It’s time to put our heads together, plant another seed.

When the world outside is falling down
And you think you’ll never see the light of day,
Look up to us for guidance.

The scientists suggest that they expect to see the end.
Religion clouds with lore of saviors heaven sent.
But we who hold the key deserve to choose the right from wrong.
We must devise a bill designed to help the world along.

We must record the way we live.
Preserve advancements of the human race.
We must construct a pyramid
To document the progress that we made.

The building has commenced and we will all be there to see
This groundbreaking event encoded with humanity.
Our distant kin will learn to read and write as they evolve.
We hope that when they find our words their puzzles will be solved.

Cataclysm

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

The world is coming to an end.
The tragedy’s trajectory will nearly intersect our own.
In magnitudes we’ve never known
It’s gravity will shear the Earth in close proximity.

With telescope we saw the mass
Refracted toward our retina.
We checked again once time had passed
Then calculated apogee.

Velocity was evident.
We pinpointed its location.
Projected on our astral chart
Its dismal future path.

We can try to change the course
Of what is meant to be.
Add some mass, deflect the stone,
Divert our destiny.

Polar Shift

Music: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

Heavy Water

Lyrics: M. MahoneyMusic: C. Mahoney, M. Mahoney

Now that the earth has settled down
And metal isn’t falling from the sky
We pick the pieces up where they had fallen
But rain’s uncommon in the wintertime.

A frigid wind is blowing from the northern sky
A circumstance beyond our heart’s command.
But meanwhile we see the water rise
We can float until we set our feet upon the sand.

The nightmare has begun, it’s understood.
The government cannot control her wrath.
We’ll forge ahead upon these planks of wood.
Let Mother Nature lead us to her aftermath.

Collect the pieces of our lives
And board the vessel with our dreams inside.
We’ll sail to the east and south and west
In hopes of finding somewhere to reside.

Oars assaulting lashing waves
And struggle to survive.
Make landfall is the end we crave,
To make it through this trip alive.

The ocean spans my line of sight.
Prevailing winds must take us there.
It spits upon my face in spite.
And salt accumulating in my hair.

Heavy water falling all around.
We’ll keep on riding ’till we hit the ground.
(beat our oars/pump the oars/push the limits)
And hope to hear the seagull’s cry.

My mind falls back upon beginning times
As the twist of hunger leads me to my grave.
And all around me swimming in the salty brine
I can’t…